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5/23/2012, Sivan 2, 5772

Vandals Deface Memorial of Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest

Vandals defaced the memorial in Budapest of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved the lives of tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, Hungarian media outlets reported Wednesday.
A group of Jewish tourists from New York, visiting in the Hungarian capital, alerted authorities after they found bloody pig feet suspended from the statute.